Individual and household incomes

While the income levels range widely over the Pilbara working population, gross individual incomes have grown markedly over the previous 5 years to 2006, with the number of people earning over $1000 a week increasing from 28% of the workforce in 2001 to 36% in 2006.  The number of people earning over $1500 a week has increased by more than 80% from 2001 to 2006. Further more over 15% of the Pilbara working population earned more than $2000 per week (gross) in 2006.

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Wage & Salary Earners

Median incomes of wage and salary earners have been showing steady increases over the five years to 2004/05.  Wage and salary earners of Ashburton(S) have shown consistently higher median incomes than all other local governments across the Pilbara.

From 2000-01 to 2004-05, the average wage and salary income also rose steadily across all LGA's. East Pilbara(S) & Roebourne(S) showed the greatest increase with over 24% rise in the average income.

The number of wage and salary earners rose in all Pilbara LGA's from 2000-01 to 2004-05, apart from Port Hedland(T) where numbers fell slightly. Roebourne(S) registered the largest increase in wage and salary earners across this period.

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